LUKAS’ POVAll my life I had been feeling misunderstood and I felt that I needed to explain myself to Elena for her to understand why I did what I had done. She needed to understand why I had chosen to take her with me and why she had to stay with me even though she had found her mate. She still didn’t know that I knew that Damien was her mate but I was about to tell her. I wanted to explain the monster I had become first before explaining to her why I brought her here. The reason why I felt the need to explain myself was not because I was feeling bad about the things I had done to her, but because I wanted to understand why it was important to me that she stayed with me and that the safety of this baby was my priority.I didn’t owe anyone an explanation for my actions and that included Elena. As far as I was concerned, I had done what I had to do and that was nothing to be ashamed of. If I had the opportunity to do things all over again, I would probably do them the same way and I wo
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe the sad life that Lukas had lived, in a way I kind of felt like he was also a victim of his own father as much as Damien and his family were too. I knew that Damien would strongly disagree with this but Lukas had done what he did out of respect and love for his father. That is not to say that he was forced to do something he didn’t want to do because he seemed to be enjoying torturing other people but at the same time I felt like he was never given any other choice. I felt like Lukas embraced the life he had been given by his father maybe because he felt he didn’t have any other choice, I had never met his father, and my assumptions were only based on the short story that Lukas had given me. When I first met Lukas I never asked myself what the story behind his actions was. I always thought that he was motivated by his own guilt but I was shocked to be proven wrong.After the shocking conversation I had with Lukas I went to bed and left him on the couch.
DAMIEN’S POVI was glad that the elders agreed to meet with me even though they had accused me of wasting their time the last time I had seen them. Going into the meeting with them I wasn’t sure of what to expect because the last time I saw them they didn’t believe anything that I said to them. Lukas had managed to convince them that I was a liar and I really hoped that the idea that Charles had would work in my favor. I had no doubts that the wolf's bane would work but that didn’t stop me from worrying about something going wrong.Charles did just as he had promised me and he stayed by my side the whole time. It seemed that the elders actually believed him more than they believed me and that was because of the kind of man his father was. They seemed to be taking everything that I was saying into consideration after Charles confirmed it. I was relieved when they agreed to give me the wolfs bane and an opportunity to prove my identity and when nothing happened to me after drinking it,
LUKAS POV After sitting outside the oracle’s heart for almost an hour, I finally decided that it was best if I just went to check on the pack. I convinced myself that Elena was fine because I had checked on her before I left. Elena didn’t have a phone and had never been given one because of my trust issues. I had always been afraid that if I gave her a phone, it would make it easy for her to conspire with her family and come up with a plan to leave me. This was a decision that I was somewhat regretting now because if I had given her a phone I would be able to ask her if she was okay right now. If it wasn’t for the oracle I wouldn’t even be worried about her well-being because she was fine when I left her. The oracle had said some troubling things to me and I couldn’t help feeling a sense of doom.As I was driving to the pack something came to my mind. I knew that there was no way that Damien would have just given up on getting the throne and walked away so I was almost certain that h
LUKAS’ POVAs I drove back to the house I couldn’t help thinking back to the events of my day. none of the things that I had set outlook had turned out the way I had intended or even wanted them to go. The oracle hadn’t said or done anything that was going to help me keep my throne. She had spoken to me in parables and left me very confused. I couldn’t even believe that I had gone to her in confidence and believing that she would be able to help me. I felt like she had really wasted my time and I wished that she had told me straight up that she couldn’t help me. However, I also felt like there was no point in me to even complaining about the way she handled my consultation.Right now my main concern was getting back home and checking on Elena, I had been gone for the whole day and I knew that leaving a pregnant female wolf all on her own was very dangerous. I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if some rogue wolves had picked her scent and found her. I tried not to think negativel
ELENA’S POV I knew that I was dying, I knew something was wrong and the fact that I had even started bleeding showed me that I was right. I had to find a way to get through to Lukas and make him see that I was in too much pain and I needed help. It felt like I ws talking to a brick wall because everything I said to him didn’t seem to resonate with him. It was as if it was going in one ear and going out the other one. I couldn't understand why he was acting like he didn’t care about me. He simply refused to listen to me despite the countless times that I had begged him to let me go, I wasn’t asking him to return me back to the pack but I was simply asking him to allow me to breathe and maybe heal on my own. When I finally gave up fighting Lukas he stood up and closed the tap. My temperature had gone down but I was still feeling some excruciating pain. He put me on top of the bed as he changed his clothes and I watched him as he did so. I wondered when he would realize that this had g
DAMIEN’S POVI could feel that something was wrong, Elena might have been far away from me but I just knew that something wasn’t right. I wasn’t particularly feeling sick but my heart wasn’t settled, I was scared out of my mind just thinking of what Lukas could have been doing to her. I still didn’t know how deep his obsession with my mate and I didn’t know how far he planned to take it, all I knew was that Elena was in danger and I had to find a way to help her. We had managed to call the pack meeting and all that was left for us to do was to address them and let them know what was going on. Charles was certain that by now they had all heard of what was happening and they were probably expecting me to call a meeting and explain why I was suddenly their alpha. I hoped that they would receive me better than Mike had, I admired the loyalty Mike was showing Lukas. I felt like deep in his heart he knew that everything that we were saying about Lukas was true and yet he was just strugglin
LUKAS’ POV2I could see that I was losing Elena and there was nothing I could do to help her, the only thing that I could think of at this point that would help Elena was to go back to the oracle to try and ask her to help her. The last time I had seen her she told me that I had to make a decision and until now I didn’t know what decision that was going to be. I didn't even have time to try and figure out what she meant by that because the most pressing matter right now was getting Elena feeling better. The oracle was the only one that could heal her and the other person that could help her was Damien and I was obviously not going to go for that option. The man had already taken my place in the pack and I would be damned if he did the same in Elena’s life. Elena was my mate and there was nothing that anyone could do to separate me from her. I wasn't even going to allow death to separate us.I woke up in the morning and headed to the oracle’s shrine leaving Elena, sleeping. I hoped tha
DAMIEN’S POV“It hurts …” Elena cried out as I tried to keep her calm.She had been in pain for a while now and I was beginning to wonder if thus was the way it was supposed to be. A part of me felt like she was going to die because I had never seen anyone in as much pain as she was in right now. I didn’t even know how to help her or where to touch her. I was too afraid that if i touched her in the wrong place I would hurt her even more “Where is the fucking doctor?” She shouted at me almost damaging my eardrum.“HE is on his way” I said as I helped her lay down again while sending another mind link to the doctor. I couldn’t understand what was taking him so long. He responded to my mind link and told me that he was on his way.After a few minutes he was in our bedroom checking Elena’s pulse. “is she going to be okay? Is this supposed to be happening? Is she supposed to be in his much pain?” I interrogated him but he ignored me“doctor, is the baby okay? Will they both be oka
ELENA’S POV I couldn’t believe that I was actually here and in my mother’s arms. I had missed being held by this woman more than I cared to admit. I missed hearing her voice and being calmed down by her. I had even forgotten that she was once the centre of my world, I had forgotten that she was once a god in my eyes. I couldn’t even believe that I had allowed Lukas to make me hate my own m0ther, but now that I was here I wanted to make up for all the time that we had lost while we were away from each other. Despite being in my mother’s arms, I still couldn’t help noticing that there was someone missing her there. It was my father. I wondered if he didn’t want to see me after all, had I come all this way only to be rejected by him again?” He is inside and I promise you he has the same fears that you have” my mother said and I smiled nervously.“alpha Damien, thank you so much for reuniting us with our daughter. We never thought that we would see her again but life is full surprises.”
DAMIEN’S POVI really hoped that seeing her little sister would make Elena reconsider her feelings for her parents. She needed to forgive them not only for her sake but also for the pups that we were going to have in the future. It was as if I only existed to make this woman happy because the look on her face when she laid her eyes on her sister was enough to get me smiling all throughout the day. When Tasha and Elena were done with their meeting, I asked Charles to take Tasha back home because I wanted to go and hear from Elena how their meeting had gone. I already knew how the meeting had gone because I could hear them laughing as Elena walked her little sister out of the bedroom. Even without seeing her, I already knew that she was very happy.I was glad that seeing her little sister made Elena realise that she needed her family as much as they needed her. I had no family and I wished I had one. I didn’t want her to wait until it was too late before she made amends. Admittedly, her
DAMIEN’S POV I was happy to finally be able to take Elena home with me. We had been apart for too long and it was also time for me to help ease her pain. She had already been through a lot and I just wanted her to get a break. I missed sewing her all happy and I missed seeing her smiling. Ever since Lukas had found out what was happening between me and Elena, things hadn't been smooth for us. First he had kicked me out of the pack and soon after that he ran away with Elena. However, that was now all after under the bridge and everything in order now, well everything except Elana’s health.I had chosen to move me and Elena to a different room because I decided she wouldn’t want to stay in the same room that she shared with Lukas. I didn’t even want to imagine the kind of memories she had in there but I didn’t want her to relive anything. I wanted the old bedroom to be turned into my new office and I wanted Elena’s bedroom to be joined with another room so that we could make it into ou
ELENA’S POVI had passed out sometime in the car as we made our way back to the pack. I felt like I could rest easy knowing that I was now back in the arms that I was supposed to be in. I still felt bad for the way things had ended with Lukas but there was nothing that I could do to handle that situation. I still felt that he had changed and that he regretted his actions but it seemed that I was the only one who believed that. I was saddened by the way Damien had turned into a monster just get get revenge on Lukas, but at the same time, I could understand his pain and who was to say that if he hadn't killed Lukas he wouldn’t come after me after I was well. I had to be honest with myself and the truth was that I knew that I would never have felt safe if I knew that Lukas was out there roaming free. I would have lived my life looking over my shoulder and afraid that he would come after me.When I woke up I was in the back clinic and although I was still in pain from the heat, I felt a l
DAMIEN’S POVNow that Lukas was dead, Elena and I could finally move on with our lives in peace. We left his body lying there in his yard and figured that some stray animal would get rid of it for us. I decided to believe Mike when he said that he hadn't told Lukas that we were coming but at the same time I made a mental note to keep a very close eye on him. Mike was not to be trusted and there was no way that I was going to give him a position that was going to make him close to me. I wanted to keep him as far away from me as possible for the sake of my peace of mind.As we made our way back to the mansion, Charles was the one that took over the well because I wanted to sit at the back with Elena. She looked horrible and instead of the sweet scent that I could recognise her by, she smelled like death was hovering above her. Even if she was in heat, how the hell was I going to help her and where the fuck was I even going to start? Lukas had really fucked things up for us and I wished
LUKAS’S POVI was struggling to understand why Mike had done this and why he had betrayed me in the way that he had. Had I ever done anything to him that made him think angry? Had I ever treated him unfairly? I couldn’t think of anything that I had ever done to him that could ever justify all that he had done to me. I had treated him like a brother that I had never had, but I guess he never appreciated that. Here was Mike, a guy that I had treated like my second in command standing over me with Damiena and Charles, the men that wanted me dead. I could understand why Charles hated me, especially after what happened to his father, but how could Mike do that?Charles and Damien kept interrupting my conversation with someone I had considered a brother for such a long time I chose to ignore them. I wanted Mike to answer me before I died so that I would die knowing exactly why he had chosen to betray me like this.“why Mike?” I asked him again.“I didn’t have a choice, Lukas” he finally sai
DAMIEN’S POVAlthough I was very happy that we had finally arrived where Lukas was keeping Elena, I was very disturbed when I saw him walking out with her in his arms. My wolf immediately went crazy and I clenched the gun that I was holding. Why the hell was he carrying her and what had he done to her? The fact that he was carrying her drove me crazy, but when my eyes met with hers I realised that something was seriously wrong with her. I couldn’t help feeling like she was trying to communicate something with me but just couldn’t figure out what it was. She kept looking at me and then at Lukas. At some point, whenever looked at Lukas it seemed that he said something to her and I wished I was a fly so that I could hear what, he was telling her. He had better not have been threatening her because there was no way that he was going to escape this today. This had been something that was long time coming0 and he now had to face the consequences of the decisions that he had made. I hoped t
ELENA’S POVI was slowly fading and when I opened my eyes I met Lukas' own eyes filled with sorrow. He seemed to have been crying and even though I was the one knocking very loudly on death's door, I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. I wanted to tell him that he didn’t have to do this, but I was too weak to even open my mouth. For a minute I couldn’t remember what was happening and I couldn’t even recognise where I was. It was upon seeing Lukas's face that I remembered that he had kidnapped me yet again after finding out that Damien was my mate. When was this ever going to end?“Water...” I whispered and he gently touched my lips and then got up and got a glass of water with a straw. I didn’t realise how weak I was until I tried getting up to take the glass of water.“You are weak” he said as he got closer to my lips with the glass of water. I took a sip and then rested on the pillow. Lukas stared at me before he finally started speaking.“I am so sorry for putting you through this